Fauna of New Zealand

The Fauna of New Zealand / Ko te Aitanga Pepeke o Aotearoa series has been widely acclaimed for its role in presenting New Zealand's unique terrestrial invertebrate fauna to the world since 1982.

The Fauna of New Zealand is a monograph series with approximately two new issues a year. 72 issues have been published to date. Each number contains a checklist of the taxa, an introduction to the group, descriptions of the taxa, and illustrations (line and half-tone, and in recent years colour images). It was the first scientific series in New Zealand to have popular summaries in Māori and English.

Fauna of New Zealand online

Extracts from introductory section for all 72 contributions. Includes abstract, checklist of taxa, and introduction.

Searchable PDF facsimiles of printed numbers, available for downloading for all 72 contributions.
The Editorial Board endorses the principle of Open Access to scientific information on New Zealand terrestrial invertebrates, and this is one reason why free PDF facsimiles of all printed numbers are provided on this website.
PDF search hint: find information associated with specimens by using a locality or plant name as the search term.